FDT Group and CC-Link Announce Cooperation Agreement

19 November 2010

The CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) has signed a cooperation agreement with the FDT Group to promote the use of the FDT as an international standard. Under the agreement, CLPA will support the development of an annex of the protocol to support the CC-Link family of networks including its CC-Link IE Field Gigabit Industrial Ethernet.  CLPA’s [...]

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Benefits of optical fibre in industrial networking

17 November 2010

One of the great advantages of using a fieldbus based on Industrial Ethernet technology is the ability to use cost-effective standard Ethernet components in building a network. The cost savings associated with using Ethernet cables and connectors compared with dedicated hardware are considerable. And with the move to higher network speeds, this also enables the [...]

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Celebrate CC-Link’s 10th Anniversary at the SPS/IPC/Drives Fair in Nuremburg

15 November 2010

The upcoming SPS/IPC/Drives Fair (23rd to 25th November 2010 in Nuremburg, Germany) offers an ideal opportunity for European engineers to learn more about CC-Link networking and the work of the CC-Link Partner Association. The CLPA stand (Hall 6, booth number 6-435) will feature all the latest CC-Link Compliant products from a wide range of partner [...]

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Membership benefits for smaller manufacturers

3 November 2010

The CC-Link Partner Association is perfectly suited to the smaller manufacturer of industrial automation equipment. Even if you only have one product, then the CLPA can provide the ideal combination of technical help and marketing assistance required to help you exploit the growing market for CC-Link compliant equipment. For any manufacturer faced with the global [...]

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The importance of high availability in industrial networking

20 October 2010

High availability is is an essential criterion in specifying any industrial network. High numbers of network failures and extended outages caused by such failures are simply unacceptable in any manufacturing environment, where time quite literally is money. In addition to its blistering 1Gbit/s throughput, the CC-Link IE network is designed specifically to enable high network [...]

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Message transmission in CC-Link networks

13 October 2010

CC-Link networks offer very high levels of determinism, essential in most applications in order to ensure performance, productivity and correct system function. This is provided in two ways. Cyclic communication provides real-time deterministic performance via a token passing method. The majority of data being shared throughout a system is handled in this way in order [...]

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Cabling guidelines ease Industrial Ethernet installation

25 August 2010

The CC-Link Partner Association has published a new cable installation manual for the CC-Link IE Field Industrial Ethernet-based open network. In addition to helping with the installation procedure it also advises installers on those items that should be considered in advance, provides a checklist of items to be checked at the construction site and precautionary [...]

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Newly approved CC-Link IE Control fibre optic cable

18 August 2010

  This CC-Link IE Control fibre optic patch cable assembly is made of duplex 2.0 mm multimode 50 micron, OM2, fiber cables with LC Duplex connectors at both ends. Duplex Patch Cable assemblies are of the highest quality available. The insertion loss is specified at a maximum of 0.3 dB.  For more information……………..CC-Link IE Control certified [...]

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The Promise of CC-Link IE

11 August 2010

In looking at a network on must always consider the seven-layer model. In each layer sound decisions seem to have been made. As a physical layer the choice of IEEE 802.3z/ 1000BASE-SX – 1GB multi-mode fibre optic – gives ruggedness and speed. On top of this is a token passing datalink layer supporting loop technology. Network shared memory architecture allows N: N real-time communication with high reliability and easy set-up. A transient transmission allows user applications to connect via a common object access. If we couple all this to Mitsubishi’s proven reliability and back compatibility, things look good for CC-Link IE

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CC-Link approval for Hilscher NXEB 100-NET development board

4 August 2010

CC-Link Partner Association announces that the Hilscher netX network development & evaluation board NXEB 100-NET has been fully tested and certificated to CC-Link V2.0. Thanks to the versatility of netX, equipment vendors who plan to make new developments of CC-Link supporting device can now make use of this flexible system.

The big advantage to developers is that the NXEB 100-NET will support several Industrial Ethernet and fieldbus protocols on the same platform simply by changing the firmware. In addition to CC-Link it can support: PROFINET; EtherNet/IP; EtherCAT; SERCOS-Ⅲ; Powerlink; PROFIBUS; DeviceNet; CANopen; CompoNet and some others.

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